Temperatures are forecast to drop throughout the weekend and into next week, with rain possibly changing to snow by Sunday night in the Salina area, according to the National Weather Service weekend forecast.

"It doesn't look like a big paralyzing storm or anything," said Mary-Beth Schreck, meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Wichita. She said current predictions are for accumulations of 2 inches at the most, but she said that may change.

"The track of the storm is kind of changing day to day," she said.

There's a 50 percent chance of the snow lingering into Monday, according to the forecast.

The mild fall temperatures -- a high of 69 degrees Friday -- are expected to plummet to a high of 37 by Monday, coming back up to the 50s by Thursday. The lows are expected to get as low as 33 degrees.

Northwest Kansas is expected to get its second blast of winter this weekend. Five inches of snow fell in the Goodland area a couple of days before Halloween, with other locations monitored out of the Goodland station receiving as much as 12 inches of snow in that storm, said Mark Buller, meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Goodland.

The office monitors an area that includes three counties in Colorado and extends south to Greeley and Wichita counties and east to Norton, Graham and Gove counties.

This weekend's storm is expected to produce from 4 to 6 inches of snow for the region, he said.

"It's up in the area where the best accumulation of snow is going to be right now," he said, but he said the storm is likely to dump snow as far east as Colby.

"We had a nice little warm-up yesterday, and it's back to reality today," he said.

n Reporter Erin Mathews can be reached at 822-1415 or by e-mail at emathews@salina.com.

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